Non-refillable bottle.



' Patented'ocrt. 28, |902.

E. BARBATH.

'NUNHEF'ILLABLE BOTTLE. (Application led Mur. 2.5, 1901) (No Model!) 1HE sims PETERS w. PNoToLlTHq, wAsHmGoN. u. u.

UNITED STATESY PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD BARRATILOF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO HARRY F. MAYER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,172, dated October 28, 1902.

Application filed March 25, 1902. Serial No. 99,829. (No model.)

bottle and to prevent refilling of the empty.

bottle, and in such connection it relates to the construction and arrangement of such a non-reillable bottle.` Y l The principal object of my invention is to provide a simple and efcient means for preventing the reilling of bottles; and to this end the invention consists in the construc-v tion and arrangement hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and scope of` my inventionwill be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure l is a front elevational view, partly sectioned, of'a non-refillable bottle embodying main features of my invention, the parts being illustrated in the position they assume when the bottle is upright. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, but illustrating the position assumed by the parts when the bottle is horizontal; and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. I,` but illustrating a modified form ofthe invention.

Referring to Figs. land 2 of the drawings,- vd represents the body of the bottle, and b a grooves b' and d. to more firmly unite the tube el to said neck. vrThe upper end of the tube d is formed to receive the cork or stopple f of the body, and intermediate of its ends the tube d is contracted, as at d2, into a tube of less diameter than the main body of the tube d. Within the`contracted portion d2 and arranged to slide therein is a nipple or thimble g, the base whereof being open and the walls near its upper closed end being perforated, as at g. YIn its range of upward movement within the contracted portion cl2 toward the stopple f the upper end of the thimble g slides past the contracted portion, so that its perforations g'may open into the tube ol, as illustrated in Fig. 2; but in the lowermost position of the thimble g its perforations g areclosed by the contracted portion d2 of the tube d, as illustrated in Fig. l. Seated on the nipple-like neck b of the bottle a. is a ball h of a diameter larger than the diameter of the neck and also larger than the diameter of the open lower end of the thimble g. When the bottle is vertically arranged, as in Fig. l, the thimble gfalls down upon the ball h and clamps it down upon its seat on the neck b; but when the bottle ishorizontally arranged, as in Fig. 2, or inclined to pour out the liquid the ball h rolls ed of its seat on the neck b into the enlarged portion of the tube d and helps toV push the thimble g toward the upper end of the tube d, so that the perforations g' may slide past' the contracted portion da to form an opening into the tube d from the neck b.

In Fig. 3 the construction is practically the same,except that the neck b1@ of the bottle is outwardly flaring, as in ground-glass-stopple bottles, and the lower end of the tube d is tapered, as at d10, to fit into the neck Z910 and to be affixed thereto by the cement e. In

-this instance the seat Z311 for the ball his carried by the tube d. Y

Having thus described the nature andobject of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a non-refillable bottle, a tube united to and forming a continuation of the bottleneck, said tube being 'open at its upper end and having a contracted portion intermediate of its ends, a thimble havingaperforated wall and adapted to slidein said contracted portion of the tube, the base of said thimble being open and its upper end closed, the perforated portion of the thimble being closed when the thimble is in its lowermost position by the contracted portion of said tube, and a ball-valve arranged Within the tube below the base of the thimble and adapted when said thimble is in lowermost position to close both the base of the thimble and the communication between the tube and the bottleneck proper.

2. In a non-refillable bottle,a bottle having a nipple-like neck, a tube fixed to and forming a continuation of said neck, said tu be being contracted intermediate of its ends, a thimble having a perforated Wall and an open base adapted to slide up and down in said contracted portion of the tube to open or close the perforations in the Wall of the thimble and a ball-valve normally held down upon the nipple-like neck 0f the bottle by the thimble when said thimble is in its lowestposition.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribzo :ing witnesses.

EDWARD BARRATH.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

